Cirphis ebriosa

Cirphis ebriosa Guenée, 1852
Red Armyworm
(mispelled as Cirphis eboriosa Hampson, 1905)
HADENINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have dark brown wings each with a small white spot near the middle of each forewing.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

This species occurs in

male, drawing by George F. Hampson, listed as Cirphis eboriosa,
Catalogue of the Noctuidæ in the Collection of the British Museum,
Volume V (1905), Plate XCI, fig. 16,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 5, Section 1 (1852), p. 74, No. 96.

George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 5 (1905), p. 479, No. 1828, and also Plate 91, fig. 16.

Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 24-27.

Australian
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(updated 6 October 2011, 24 December 2020)